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Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s


What do you get when you cross Hollywood, VHS tapes, and a bag of flour?If you were in Ghana in the late 1980s or 90s, the answer was pure, chaotic brilliance, hand-painted movie posters so wild, so bold, and so anatomically impossible, they’re now considered collectible art.Welcome to the world of Ghanaian movie posters. They’re gory. They’re vibrant. They’re often hilarious. And they’re unlike anything you’ve ever seen.The Birth of a Bizarre Art FormBack in the 1980s, Ghana was in the midst of

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